EAWC Essay: Reflections on the Tao Te Ching
EAWC Essay: Reflections on the Tao Te Ching
Having mentioned the Tao, I felt I should link to it. The Tao has held strong enough meaning for me to have had it tatooed to my ankle as a teenager and to never have regretted that choice. This is the content of my every focussed breath, and is what is missing in my anxious, shallow breaths.
Like my redsaucer friend I cannot take in as large a thing as God lightly. To believe is to recodify my whole being. What a scary endeavour - who will I be at the end. If not a more true me, then there is no point. I think I (and he) differ in this regard from many who look for a path of truth. We're both quite childlike in many ways and painfully deep and serious in others. And questing for authenticity, meaning, Oneness.
"there is no final retreat from responsibility or the pain of living in a crooked world. " ~ then, alas, no hiding in a cottage in the woods and reading and eating vegetables. We must suffer through it and struggle through it. But all the more reason to have some meaning! And balance, East and West, heart and soul....acceptance, balance, truth, divinity, simplicityand love.
I feel like I'm defragging.....
Having mentioned the Tao, I felt I should link to it. The Tao has held strong enough meaning for me to have had it tatooed to my ankle as a teenager and to never have regretted that choice. This is the content of my every focussed breath, and is what is missing in my anxious, shallow breaths.
Like my redsaucer friend I cannot take in as large a thing as God lightly. To believe is to recodify my whole being. What a scary endeavour - who will I be at the end. If not a more true me, then there is no point. I think I (and he) differ in this regard from many who look for a path of truth. We're both quite childlike in many ways and painfully deep and serious in others. And questing for authenticity, meaning, Oneness.
"there is no final retreat from responsibility or the pain of living in a crooked world. " ~ then, alas, no hiding in a cottage in the woods and reading and eating vegetables. We must suffer through it and struggle through it. But all the more reason to have some meaning! And balance, East and West, heart and soul....acceptance, balance, truth, divinity, simplicityand love.
I feel like I'm defragging.....
posted by Katrina Urquhart at 8:04 p.m.
2 Comments:
i read this and the essay with great interest. it's late and i just finished that huge honkin lj post. every major religion has its books of wisdom and its mystics and ascetics. i can remember -- it's noted in my first journal i began keeping when i was 19 -- discovering the tao and thoreau and kerouac and plato and feminism and vegetarianism and deep ecology. i was unbalanced in those years: i changed my major and dropped out of university four or five times. what a privilege! your post is so right on, especially the last paragraph. my job is a privilege; it is also an obligation; it supports and balances. yet i feel something lies dormant, within me, within all of us. something i was on to when i was 19, 20. i was reading zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance at the time. when one lives in a mad, fractured world, how does one formulate a sane, integral response? or does one HOWL? or go Trout Fishing In America?
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